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Your system has a SATA II (3 Gb/s) interface which can support any SATA I or II HD. Today you can find very large SATA drives (4TB). But the physical size of the drive must fit within your system. Your system supports 2.5" drive that is 9.5mm in height.

The only real issue will be the SATA interface speed. Most HD's today are SATA III (6Gb/s). Sorry to say these drives are too fast for your system. While they may appear to work the I/O difference will cause errors and will overheat your system as your system works overly hard to correct the errors (overheating it). The best thing here is to locate an older drive (SATA II) or make sure the drive you plan to get has a compatibility jumper and the supplier give you the needed jumper to lower the the SATA speed.

And, yes you can put a 500GB drive in. Or even a 1TB drive (make sure it's a 9.5mm version).

The older drives can be used in newer systems "Upperly Compatible". Newer drives are not downwardly compatible in older systems.

But! Some drives are! We call these drives auto SATA port sense or ones that offer a jumper to match the systems SATA ports I/O speed. As an example Seagate's SSHD HD drives as well as Samsung's 850 EVO SSD drives are auto sense.

Fixed SATA speed drives are just that fixed at one and only one I/O speed and they must be put into a system that is the same or higher SATA I/O speed (i.e. a fixed SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) can be used in a SATA II (3.0 Gb/s) or a SATA III (6.0 Gb/s) system.

So as you can see the waters are very muddy ;-} Which is why you need to know what you have and what is possible for your system.

Thanks Dan, so based on this, what you you recommend be the best choice for for a new drive from NewEgg.ca ? There are so many name brands and other options I have no idea what's best. Does the RPM matter? Can I get a SSD instead (if I can find one that's not too pricey)

Some people don't need deep storage but want speed, others want deep storage, and others want it all ;-}

As you're hijacking someone else's Q I can't give you an exact answer here as I would need to know what your system is and what your designs are here. Are you just a web surfer, gamer, photographer, programer or a writer.

Mayer please review this Unibody MacBook Pro Q&A "Hard Drive Types & SSD Replacement Options: All of these MacBook Pro models support a 2.5" notebook hard drive or SSD that is up to 9.5 mm tall (0.37 inches) and use a SATA interface, but the maximum SATA interface speed of different models varies."

Yes, you can force fit the larger drive in. But... You loose the air space between the HD and the case, this will degrade the drive as it will run hotter (less airflow) and the case will be hotter too. Second, if you bang the case the hit goes directly to the drive by-passing the shock padding. It's best to stay within the Apple guidelines here. We tried the larger drives in a few systems only to pull them out. Our users are quite hard on the equipment physically & use, the drives just didn't hold up.

More likely the drive cable is bad. We only use Samsung SSD's and I have not encountered any problems with the drive, only the HD drive cable! If you are using an optical drive carrier you could have other problems!

I would recommend you create your own question will all of your details so we can truly help you.